Meet the women who made history with their 2022 election wins

All 50 states in the U.S. have now sent a woman to Washington.

VIEW IN BROWSER | SUBSCRIBE CLOSING THE GAP Thursday, November 10, 2022 Morgan Smith is a Work reporter at CNBC Make It. You can follow her on Twitter @thewordsmithm. 2022 is shaping up to be a historic year for women in politics — all 50 states in the U.S. have now elected to send a woman to Washington.   Vermont was the last state to have never elected a woman to Congress — but on Tuesday, Democrat Becca Balint won the state's seat in the House of Representatives, becoming the first woman and openly LGBTQ person to represent Vermont in Congress.    Other milestones included the first female governors to be elected in Arkansas, New York and Massachusetts.    While this election cycle saw a record number of women run for governor, the number of female candidates fighting for seats in the House and Senate failed to reach the highs seen in the 2018 and 2020 races, the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University reports.    Meet five of the women who made history with their election wins:  Katie Britt Republican Katie Britt, 40, is the first elected female senator from Alabama. The former CEO of the Business Council of Alabama won the open-seat race to succeed her one-time boss Richard Shelby, for whom she previously served as chief of staff.    Delia Ramirez  Democrat Delia Ramirez, 39, is the first Latina elected to Congress from Illinois, representing the state's 3rd Congressional District in the House. The daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, Ramirez also became the first Guatemalan American to serve in the Illinois General Assembly when she was elected in 2018.    Marcy Kaptur  Democrat Marcy Kaptur will become the longest-serving woman in Congress after winning her 21st term to represent Ohio in the House. Kaptur, 76, will break a record set by Barbara Mikulski, Maryland's former senator who represented the state in the House and Senate for a combined 40 years.   Summer Lee  Democrat Summer Lee is the first Black woman to be elected to Congress from Pennsylvania, representing the state's 12th Congressional District in the House.    Becca Balint  Balint, 54, is the first woman elected to Congress from Vermont and the first out LGBTQ person elected to Congress from the state after winning Vermont's sole House seat. "Today, we reaffirmed that Vermont, and this nation, is still a place where anything is possible. We're still capable of change and progress," she wrote on Instagram.    A historic number of women won races for governor across the U.S., too. Voters in Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New York and South Dakota all elected female governors.     Share your thoughts with us at askmakeit@cnbc.com.  More articles from Closing the Gap 'Mom, you look really exhausted': How this CEO got her dream job, and then burned out on it In August 2020, Michele C. Meyer-Shipp started her dream job — becoming the first woman of color to be named Major League Baseball's chief people and culture officer. Barely a year later, she announced she was stepping away. Speaking with CNBC Make It's Jennifer Liu, Meyer-Shipp, now the CEO of Dress for Success, discusses burnout and why you should make risky career decisions like she did. Read More Women don't really need to lower their voices to be taken seriously, says University of Kansas study Elizabeth Holmes was infamously suspected of lowering her voice to be taken more seriously in a male-dominated Silicon Valley. Turns out, that may have been unnecessary: A recent study from the University of Kansas School of Business finds that female bosses don't need to lower their voice to sound like a good leader, CNBC Make It's Annika Kim Constantino reports. Read More 'The more transparency, the better': How NYC job seekers say visible pay ranges will help them CNBC Make It's Jennifer Liu spoke with three New Yorkers about how NYC's new salary transparency law, which went into effect on Nov. 1, will help them take the guesswork and anguish out of negotiating pay for a new job. Read More Unsubscribe Manage Newsletters Digital Products Feedback Terms of Service Privacy Policy © 2021 CNBC LLC. All rights reserved. A property of NBC Universal. 900 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes. Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes and Market Data and Analysis. Data also provided by THOMSON REUTERS